Have you heard the buzz? There’s a brand-new rehabilitation lesson kit ready! The theme this month is “Bugs”—and the activities in this lesson kit are crawling with insects, arachnids, mollusks, and more. There’s more than 60 pages of detailed lesson plans, therapist notes, and bug-themed printable illustrations—download your free lesson kit now!

These free comprehensive lesson kits are a therapy resource for audiologists, speech & language therapists, rehabilitation specialists, and any other professional that works with children with hearing loss. Every month, we share a new aural rehabilitation lesson kit filled with complete lesson plans and printable therapy resources.

Rehabilitation Themed Lesson Kit Contents

This month, the lesson kit theme is “Bugs”. You’ll be using bug-related vocabulary and imagery to build the child’s communication skills. This month’s lesson plans include bug bingo, a fun matching game, a sing-along-song, and more.

This comprehensive lesson kit is a pdf that’s designed to be printed and reused. Every lesson kit has three levels and includes lesson plans with four complete activities and therapist notes for each activity. There’s also step-by-step guidance and printable illustrations for each activity. Each lesson plan highlights useful therapy strategies to help achieve the listening and language goals.

Step-by-step Rehabilitation Lesson Plans

4 “Bug” themed activities

High-quality illustrations

Language-neutral illustrations

Detailed therapy notes

Lesson plans for each level

Listening goals

Spoken language goals

Cognition and theory-of-the-mind goals

Key therapy strategies

Each lesson kit has three levels of each activity to cover a wide range of listening, spoken language, and cognition abilities.

Level 1

The child is learning to listen and attend to 1 unit of information. Spoken language is presented to the child in simple short sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques are utilized to enable the child to attend to new information.

The child is using single words, has a vocabulary of up to 200 words, and may be starting to combine words into 2 word combinations.

Level 2

The child is learning to listen and attend to 2 units of information. Spoken language is presented in longer sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques are utilized to encourage the child to attend to all the information in the sentence.

The child is producing 2 to 3 word combinations, has a vocabulary of 200 to 2000 words, and is beginning to use some grammatical markers.

Level 3

The child is a proficient listener, learning to attend to 3 units of information. Spoken language is presented in a variety of complex sentences and acoustic highlighting techniques are utilized to encourage the child to attend to grammatical elements in the sentence.

The child is producing 3 to 5 word sentences and questions, has a vocabulary of more than 2000 words, and is using a variety of grammatical markers.

Download Lesson Kit

These aural rehabilitation lesson kits are available free of charge—we’re here to support your work and the success of every recipient. They can be printed, emailed, shared with colleagues, and even given to parents as supplemental at-home aural rehabilitation resources between sessions.

We post a new lesson kit for download every month here on our Professionals Blog. There’s no deadline for downloading these aural rehabilitation resources, so you can easily find and share previous lesson kits.

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